Jamal Pasha

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Jamal Pasha (1872 – 1922), known in the Arab world as Jamal the Butcher, was a notorious Turkish military leader and commander of the Ottoman Fourth Army, which was stationned in Damascus, during World War I. He was known among the local Arab inhabitants as al-Saffah, "the Blood Shedder", being responsible for the hanging of many Syrians wrongly accused of treason on May 6, 1916, in Damascus and Beirut.

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  • Cleveland, William: A History of the Modern Middle East. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. "World War I and the End of the Ottoman Order", 146-167.


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